Emission versus Fermi coordinates: applications to relativistic positioning systems

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/20/205011zbMATH Open1152.83008arXiv0809.0998OpenAlexW2043335706WikidataQ62560844 ScholiaQ62560844MaRDI QIDQ3535562FDOQ3535562

Authors: Donato Bini, Andrea Geralico, Matteo Luca Ruggiero, Angelo Tartaglia 

Publication date: 13 November 2008

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A 4-dimensional relativistic positioning system for a general spacetime is constructed by using the so called "emission coordinates". The results apply in a small region around the world line of an accelerated observer carrying a Fermi triad, as described by the Fermi metric. In the case of a Schwarzschild spacetime modeling the gravitational field around the Earth and an observer at rest at a fixed spacetime point, these coordinates realize a relativistic positioning system alternative to the current GPS system. The latter is indeed essentially conceived as Newtonian, so that it necessarily needs taking into account at least the most important relativistic effects through Post-Newtonian corrections to work properly. Previous results concerning emission coordinates in flat spacetime are thus extended to this more general situation. Furthermore, the mapping between spacetime coordinates and emission coordinates is completely determined by means of the world function, which in the case of a Fermi metric can be explicitly obtained.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0998

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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